Cost management
Maximise value and minimise your risks by estimating, allocating, and controlling costs before your project starts.
Realising value for money for your project
Whether your project is a new development or an existing building or even the need for specialist cost consultancy advice, we bring unparalleled expertise and cost insight across all markets and sectors. Through intelligent budgeting, active value management and dynamic capital planning, we establish a strong base of commercial rigour. Using in-depth reporting the latest technology and controlled contract management we offer cost efficiency, enhanced control and reduced risk as standard.
Featured services
Cost management in project preparation
Bring methodical, analytical and collaborative approaches to development, maximise value generation, align spend with value, mitigate risk and bring certainty of outcome through our technology, processes and people.
Cost management in the project process
Keep close control on the costs of your project. Early identification of cost risk, unexpected change, cashflow and supply chain challenges are proactively forecast to keep your project on track.
Optimization management of project additional costs
Get expert advice to protect you from the risk associated with over insurance - unnecessary and excessive premiums; and under insurance - your business continuity risk.
Development of the detailed construction budget
Establish robust construction budgets, with minimal information at the outset/inception of a project to bring assurance that optimises value, minimises risk and identifies delivery challenges.
Development-Cost-Monitoring
Bring certainty to your development(s) through cost and commercial monitoring, validating at every stage and identifying risk mitigatory strategies to realise successful outcomes.
Cost benchmarking
Ensure accuracy, insight, certainty and understanding – whether setting budgets or challenging cost advice from others – through our holistic and granular benchmark data.
Cash inflow and outflow optimization
Reveal opportunities from complex tax legislation to obtain potential relief, recover capital costs and secure valuable cash flow advantages from your capital investment programme.
Capital planning
Establish a viable and accurate baseline budget aligned to validated benchmarks to provide a frame of reference to maximise efficiency of your property or portfolio spend programmes.
Research & insights
How the modern workplace is transcending the office
Employees are increasingly expecting office experiences to include public spaces
Project cost optimization
Real estate insights by Hajar Lafghir, Associate Africa - Project & Development Services MEA
A decade of Make in India
Reflecting on progress and envisioning the future
Bricks-and-mortar’s new must have: digital experiences
Real estate leaders must cater to digital expectations or risk feeling out of the loop
How new work environments can reduce stress
A new study shows that the office environment has a strong influence on well-being and productivity
Will data center fires spark tighter safety rules?
Recent data center fires raise serious concerns about the adequacy of current fire safety measures
Office life has changed. How are firms responding?
New data about how people work is driving changes in office design
The sustainable asset advantage: unlocking value for a green future
Real estate insight by Elaine O’Connor, Head of Project & Development Services Egypt & Africa
Why more office retrofits are working around employees
Landlords mindful of NZC benefits aren’t waiting for tenants to vacate spaces
Office makeovers: giving employees what they want
Companies are offering a wider variety of spaces that aid focused work
How companies are addressing rising office fit-out costs
Getting people back in the office requires investment in technology and adaptable spaces
Why data centers could hit obsolescence sooner than you think
AI and emerging technologies risk leaving current projects short of power
Liquid cooling enters the mainstream in data centers
Data center operators are swapping air cooling for liquid cooling as rack densities climb
Why investors are banking on conversions
Repurposing offices to other real estate types is on the rise
How next-generation real estate projects are shaping cities
Cutting-edge developments are delivering smarter, greener, more human-centric cities
Global Office Fit-Out Cost Guide 2025
Insights into cost drivers for fitting out offices globally
Is hybrid really working?
Our latest research examines the evolution of employee expectations and corporate hybrid strategies. It is informed by the results of employee and employer surveys carried out by our Global Benchmarking team.
Retrofitting Buildings to be Future-Fit
The journey to decarbonization
Perspectives for Enterprises 2022
A new frontier for work awaits
Redefining Retail Logistics Report
Retailing success has never been more dependent on the supply chain. Omni-channel is adding new layers of complexity to retail logistics; it´s no longer just getting products onto shelves, but making them available anytime and anywhere.
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